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brick dressings at a cost of £1,800 and was completed in 1858. The design involved symmetrical frontages of two bays at the north and south ends. In each bay there were tall recesses containing two-light
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in 1783. In the mid-19th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Swaffham Corn Exchange and Public Rooms Company", to finance and commission a purpose-built
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In the first half of the 19th century, local corn merchants conducted their trade around the market cross, which was surmounted by a statue of the goddess,
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with segmental heads on the ground floor and two light casement windows with round heads on the first floor. The recesses were flanked by
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Royal Illustrated History of Eastern England Civil, Military, Political, and Ecclesiastical, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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in the late 19th century. Instead, it was let out for commercial use and accommodated, amongst others, a citadel hosted by
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The use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the
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The building was designed by a local builder and architect, Mathias Goggs, in the
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supporting the gable ends, which contained circular panels with carvings of
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stayed there in June 1915. It was used as a canteen operated by the
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were billeted there in October 1914 and soldiers from the
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Kelly's directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
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Swaffham
52°38′54″N 0°41′18″E / 52.6483°N 0.6884°E / 52.6483; 0.6884
Italianate style
Listed Building
Corn Hall, Swaffham is located in Norfolk
Swaffham
Norfolk
listed building
Ceres
George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford
corn exchange
Italianate style
gault
mullioned
casement windows
pilasters
wheatsheaves
modillioned
cornices
parapets
Nikolaus Pevsner
Great Depression of British Agriculture
the Salvation Army
National Agricultural Labourers' Union
Joseph Arch
First World War
Western Front
Essex Regiment
Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry

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